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President Donald Trump with Julia Cordover, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student body president, who got emotional during a meeting with students, parents and teachers about the mass shootings in Parkland, Fla., and elsewhere.

Spilling out wrenching tales of lost lives and stolen security, students and parents appealed to President Donald Trump to set politics aside and protect America's schoolchildren from the scourge of gun violence.

The 2018 campaign hangs over the 2018 session as lawmakers are gaveled to work. Hear the "Playing Politics" analysis from WCCO Radio's Chad Hartman and the Star Tribune Editorial Board's John Rash and Lori Sturdevant.